Publisher: Doubleday Doran and Company, originally published 1930, Viking Press, New York, August 1952 first edition, first printing of this edition.
Text unchanged from original edition. No isbn. Not ex-library.

PLOT: Old Danny O'Fay and donkey lived in hut by sea, Danny sold fish around country. Here is what happened night of Big Wind when Danny's thatched roof was stripped completely-and Wee Men were blown out of Ballywooden...

Robert Lawson: One of America's greatest twentieth-century children's book illustrators, a master of pen and ink drawing, and magazine illustrator. He was the first, and only person to be given both the Caldecott Medal "They Were Strong and Good"(1941) and Newbery Medal "Rabbit Hill"(1945).

This work of fiction first brought him to popular attention, his second book, long thought to be his first, was `Little Prince Toofat'. Also known for his 1930's wonderful fairy etchings. The Story of Ferdinand (1936), Mr. Popper's Penguins, Newbery Medal winner and author of Rabbit Hill, Ben and Me earned a 1961 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.